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Twenty-three and fifty, if I have to say something about Christmas past say two things.
One is a letter grade, which you around because it contains things that deserve to be read again and here I want to have ready in case of emergency.
The best feeling is the mysterious side of life.
It 's the deep feeling that is always in the cradle of true art and true science.
Who is no longer able to feel or wonder or surprise, as it were dead, his eyes are off. The impression of the mysterious, albeit mixed with fear, he raised, inter alia, religion. Knowing that there is something impenetrable know the deepest manifestations of intellect and beauty more radiant, which are accessible to our reason only in the most primitive forms, this knowledge and this feeling, that's true devotion: in this sense, and only in that sense, I am one most deeply religious men. I can not imagine a God who rewards and punishes the object of his creation, a God who exerts his will above all in the same way in which we exercise over ourselves.
I do not want and can not imagine a person who survives his physical death: how many weak souls, from fear and selfishness ridiculous, they feed on similar ideas. I just feel the mystery of the eternity of life, have the awareness and insight of what is actively fighting to grab a particle, even very small, of the intelligence manifested in nature.
Hardly a profound spirit in 'scientific inquiry without its characteristic religiosity.
But this religion is different from that of simple: God is a being from the latter in hopes of protection and that the punishment is concerned, a being with which they run, to a certain extent, personal relationships as they are respectful : and a high sense of the same nature of the relationship between child and parent.
Instead, the wise and pervaded by a sense of causation for everything that happens. For
him the future does not mean less and less commitment decision of the past, the moral has nothing divine, and a purely umana.La his religiosity is entranced in admiration of the laws of nature is revealed to him so superior a mind all the intelligence that put men in their thoughts is not the sight of it a reflection absolutely nothing. This feeling is the leitmotif of life and the efforts of the scientist to the extent that it can free itself from the tyranny of her selfish desires. No doubt this feeling is very close relative of what we have tried creative religious minds of all time. All this is done is imagined by men used to meet their needs and soothe their pain. One must always bear in mind the spirit of this truth if we want to understand the intellectual movements and their development because the feelings and aspirations are the engines of every effort and every human creation, as this may seem sublime creation. So what are the needs and feelings of the man who brought the idea and faith, in the widest sense of these words? If you think this question we see immediately that the origin of thought and religious life are the most diverse feelings. In primitive and primarily raises the fear that the idea of religion, fear of hunger, wild beasts, sickness, death. Since, in this state below, ideas about causal relations are generally very limited, the human mind imagine beings more or less similar to us from whose will and whose actions depend on the adverse and dangerous and believes he can provide benefit to beings with actions and offers which, according to the faith handed down from time to time, they must appease them and make them benign. And in this sense I call this religion the religion of terror, which, if not created, has been strengthened and made at least stable form of a special priestly caste which is said intermediary between these beings and the people feared and based on this privilege its dominant position.
Often the king or the head of state, which derives its authority from other factors, or even by a privileged class, combines priestly functions with its sovereignty in order to give greater firmness to the existing regime, or is determined by a commonality of interests between the castes that holds political power and the priestly caste. There is another source
religious organization: the social feelings. The father and mother heads of the great human communities are mortal and fallible. Aspiration ardent love, support, guidance, creates the social and moral idea of God.
And 'God-Providence that protects, does act, rewards and punishes. And 'the God who, according to the horizon of man, loves and encourages the life of the tribe, humanity and life itself, that God in Counselor disasters and dashed hopes, protector of the souls of the departed.
This is the idea of God considered in the moral and social development. In the Sacred Scriptures of the jew people may well follow the evolution of religion in moral religion of terror which continues in the New Testament.
The religions of all civilized peoples, and also of Eastern nations in particular, are primarily moral religions.
The transition from religion to religion-terror is an important step in the moral life of nations.
must guard against injury is to believe that the religions of primitive races, religions and terror are only those of civilized people only moral religions. Every religion
is basically a mixture of both, however, with a higher percentage of religious morality in the higher grades of social life.
All these religions have a common point, however, and is the anthropomorphic character (here is the crucial point!) Idea of God beyond this level are not particularly noble that individuality. But in any case there is still a third degree of religious life, though very rare in its pure expression and that of cosmic religiosity. It can not be fully understood by those who do not feel as there is no concept of an anthropomorphic God. The individual is aware of the vanity of the aspirations and objectives human and, by contrast, recognizes the mark and the sublime order so admirable that occur in nature as in the world of thought. The existence of the individual gives the impression of a prison and wants to live in full awareness of all that is universal in its unity and its deeper meaning. In the early grades of 'evolution of religion (for example, in several psalms of David and in some Prophet) are the first signs of cosmic religion, but the elements of this religion are the strongest in Buddhism, as we have learned in particular from admirable writings of Schopenhauer.
cosmic piety knows no dogmas
The religious geniuses of all time are affected by this religiosity cosmic knows neither gods nor dogmas designed according to the image of man. There is therefore no Church bases its teachings on the fundamental cosmic religion.
happens, therefore, that it is precisely among the heretics of all time that we entered this religion more than men and were more often regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, but often also as saints.
The second is, simply, that would include Lombroso.
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